I enjoyed reading this! (hi, I'm a longtime lurker. Elizabeth Sanders sent me here.) I think it would be fun to go into a deeper dive on that conclusion of people going further up and further in because they want to, or don't because they don't want to -- especially in the context of myth, which can have a transformational power even over our own desires. But Narnia isn't a one-size-fits-all transformational myth either, like you said.
I came to this through a spontaneous browse on Reddit's, brought forth by a sudden childish need for having a Christmas of Old (which was always the BBC version of LWW; as Katy mentions production values might be less than the Walden Media movies, but if you can see past that, the series was much closer to the books in spirit) and I just wanted to say thank you for writing this.
My English isn't good enough to debate (agree?) with you in depth (frankly it's been so many years since university that I can probably not even do it in my own language), but I am now going to subscribe to your substack - and go chase up my copy of Till We Have Faces (having devoured all of the Narnia over NY).
I’d love to know what you think of the BBC adaptions of Narnia - these were my introduction to the books and it didn’t take me long to realise Aslan was a Jesus-figure. His treatment of Edmund made it the most obvious.
I enjoyed reading this! (hi, I'm a longtime lurker. Elizabeth Sanders sent me here.) I think it would be fun to go into a deeper dive on that conclusion of people going further up and further in because they want to, or don't because they don't want to -- especially in the context of myth, which can have a transformational power even over our own desires. But Narnia isn't a one-size-fits-all transformational myth either, like you said.
I came to this through a spontaneous browse on Reddit's, brought forth by a sudden childish need for having a Christmas of Old (which was always the BBC version of LWW; as Katy mentions production values might be less than the Walden Media movies, but if you can see past that, the series was much closer to the books in spirit) and I just wanted to say thank you for writing this.
My English isn't good enough to debate (agree?) with you in depth (frankly it's been so many years since university that I can probably not even do it in my own language), but I am now going to subscribe to your substack - and go chase up my copy of Till We Have Faces (having devoured all of the Narnia over NY).
Thanks for the signal boost!
I’d love to know what you think of the BBC adaptions of Narnia - these were my introduction to the books and it didn’t take me long to realise Aslan was a Jesus-figure. His treatment of Edmund made it the most obvious.